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Originally Posted by AnnGill
I went to Urgent Care to get a drug test done because I thought I had been drugged at a party. Urine and blood samples were taken and I received all kinds of information except what I asked for. The tests were done at the Villages Hospital by Alliance. I waited three days to get the “pending” results back only to learn that the tests were not performed because, according to Urgent Care, there wasn’t enough of a sample and I had to go back. Go back after 4 days to do another drug test? There would be nothing to test. Has anyone else failed to get appropriate lab tests done at the patient’s request?
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The lab testing companies around The Villages have changed the quality of their services to match that of the world class Villages Health System (oops! I forgot the word "bottom" between "world" and "class".
On to answering the primary post:
My wife needed a CT scan of her abdomen and pelvis, ordered by our PCP. The results and analysis came back. I will read several quotes from it –
- Paragraph 1: The gallbladder is not identified. There are post-surgical clips in the gallbladder area.
(This is all true since my wife had her gallbladder removed in the 1990’s)
- Paragraph 2: Probable stone in the gallbladder.
SAME REPORT:
- Paragraph 1: The right kidney is normal. The left kidney suggested calcification.
- Paragraph 2: Probable calcification in the right kidney.
It doesn’t stop there. My wife went back the lab to request that the radiologist re-read the scan and correct the report. The next day she called the lab to see when she could get a copy of the corrected report. The answer –
“The doctor said he is not going to reread it. He says it is correct as he wrote it the first time.”
Even our PCP (who is the only doctor in The Villages I can trust), could not budge the radiologist off his incorrect and incompetent stance.
Later, Our PCP, ordered an MRI of my wife’s stomach, from another lab. To quote from that report –
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Gallbladder normal.”
If this had been a CT and MRI looking for cancer, And the cancer surgeon relied on these reports, my wife would probably be dead by now.
I feel that living under the Morse family medical system, is like being stranded on a desert island, where the primary medical care is provided by a witch doctor who is the son-in-law of the king. On this island the deadliest disease is to criticize the witch doctor.